Commentary
In one of his many interviews during the annus mirabilis of 2018, Jordan Peterson sat down with a journalist from The Economist to discuss the issues for which he’d become famous, including behavioral differences between men and women. She was a quibbling creature, in over her head when it came to empirical studies of those differences, but she had a firm handle on MeToo, which was going strong at the time.
At one point, Peterson distinguished male aggression from female aggression on these grounds: When men get angry, they lean toward “outright physical aggression.” They may not often reach that point of violence, but the possibility often lurks in the background. When women get angry, they don’t aim toward physical attack. Instead, they engage in “reputation destruction, innuendo, and gossip.”
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